CORRUPTION WATCH: Taxpayers pay $101,000 for Pelosi's in-flight 'food, booze'
Madame Speaker's trips 'are more about partying than anything else.'
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It reads like a dream order for a wild frat party: Maker's Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey's Irish Crème, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewars scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey … and Corona beer.
But that single receipt makes up just part of the more than $101,000 taxpayers paid for "in-flight services" – including food and liquor, for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trips on Air Force jets over the last two years. That's almost $1,000 per week.
Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Judicial Watch which investigates and prosecutes government corruption, show Pelosi incurred expenses of some $2.1 million for her use of Air Force jets for travel over that time.
"Speaker Pelosi has a history of wasting taxpayer funds with her boorish demands for military travel," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said today. "And these documents suggest the Speaker's congressional delegations are more about partying than anything else."
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Jan 31, 2010 at 10:47 PM
Reader Comments (9)
I had no idea I could afford all this.
"We will go through the gate. If the gate is closed, we will go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we will pole vault in. If that doesn't work, we will parachute in." Pelosi in a Drunken Stupor
When you hang out with Barry, you get a contact buzz and that makes you thirsty. Please show some empathy.
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Because pelosi demands it...did you read in the article how she often cancels trips at the last minute...after thousands have gone into preparation for her scheduled trip...
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Banksters, Bernanke, Geithner are a threat to national security!
Bernanke: consumers will get less and pay more to borrow
"Companies and ordinary Americans would pay more to borrow."
So only ordinary Americans pay more to mop up the mess. The frauds in govt and corrupt Congress that are high risk but 'friends of Angelo' will still get low rates. Same corruption and fraud. Nothing has changed...
Fellow Americans: No way out
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OUR NATION IS UNDER SEIZE BY BANKER/WALL STREET/CORP NEXUS MAFIA
NO JOBS
OUR PENSION LOOT=BUST NEXT
OUR HOMES BUSTED AND CRIMINALS REWARDED
WE STILL GETTING SCAMMED
MERCY MY LORD:
Famous Thomas Jefferson Quote
"If the American people ever allow private banks
to control the issue of their money,
first by inflation and then by deflation,
the banks and corporations that will
grow up around them (around the banks),
will deprive the people of their property
until their children will wake up homeless
on the continent their fathers conquered."
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.CA94
Andrew Jackson quotes:
Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves.